Portable drill-holder.



PATENTED AUG. 7, 1906.

T. B. POWERS. PORTABLE DRILL HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 20. 1905.

TIMOTHY B. POWERS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PORTABLE DRILL-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 7, 1906.

Application filed November 20, 1905. Serial No. 288,125.

T0 at whom, it may concern- Be it known that I, TIMOTHY B. POWERS, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Drill Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to portable drillholders.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a portable drill-holder adapted to contain a large number of drills of various sizes and so constructedv that the holder will stand securely upright on a work-bench when in use with the drills in place and when not in use will fold together with the drills still in place, so as to occupy little space in a workmans tool-box or pocket. Such a drillholder has long been desired, for it is, on the one hand, inconvenient to carry the drills about loose in a tool-chest or in the pocket, and, on the other hand, the tool-holders on work-benches are not portable, nor are they capable of being folded into a space which renders them practicable to put in a workmans chest, still less into his pocket.

The invention also relates, as will be evi dent from the description hereinafter given, to details of construction'whereby the holder can be made in a cheap, convenient, and practicable form.

Referring to the drawings, which accompany the specification to aid the descri tion,

'gure 1 is a perspective view of a drillolder with certain drills in place and in an open position, Figs. 2 and 4 being respectively a Ian and an end elevation of the drill-holder olded u Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the drillolder in another open position without drills.

The Body of the drill-holder is com osed of several parts or sections, as a b c, w 'ch are each provided with sockets d e f for a large number of drills g h 'i, and the said sockets d e f preferably form a series of graduated sockets which conform to the standard market sizes of drills. Said sections are each provided with any suitable means for engaging with the adjacent sections, so that said sections may be opened when in use to form a frame which will stand securely on a bench or other place and hold the drills upright and easily accessible, and I prefer to use as such means of engaging said sections together hinges, as indicated at 76, Z, m, and n being the pintles, though any other suitable means might be employed. The said sockets d e f are preferably adapted to drills of various sizes and arranged in the orderof size from largest to smallest, as indicated; but of course any other order might be employed.

The sizes of the several drills may be marked on the frame-sections below the respective sockets, as indicated by the gagenumbers on the sections 0 c in Figs. 1 and 3, such gage-marks being preferably staggered, as shown.

As it will usually be desirable to hold the sections a b c securely to ether when folded, I employ any suitable lociing device for this purpose, as the pivoted slotted catch 0 on one section, adapted to lock on the stud p of another section, and it will sometimes be desirable to also look the ends of adjacent sections together when the frame is open in order to form a stron and rigid open frame, as in Fig. 1 but a wor man can also open the ifirameand leave the sections unlocked, as in IlVhen the drill-holder is not in use, the several sections can be folded together, as in Figs. 2 and 4, with the drills in their sockets, and the holder can then be readily placed in a tool-chest or pocket to be opened and set up when the workman arrives at his destination.

Now having described my improvements, I claim as my invention 1. In a portable folding drill-holder, the combination of a plurality of hinged sections provided with graduated drill-sockets and means adapted to lock said sections rigidly both in the closed and in the open positions of said sections, substantially as described.

. 2. In a portable folding drill-holder, the combination of three hinged sections provided with a series of graduated drill-sockets, and means for locking-said sections into a rigid triangular frame when open, substantially as described.

Signed at New York city this 18th day of November, 1905.

TIMOTHY B. POWERS.

Witnesses:

H. V. BROWN, HENRY H. DE Vos. 

